prune-deps

prune-deps

Prune-deps is a tool used for analyzing the usage of dependencies and pruning unused dependencies in package.json.

Requirements

• Node >= 16

Instalation

npm install -g prune-deps

Syntax Support

Depcheck not only recognizes the dependencies in JavaScript files but also supports these syntaxes:

• JavaScript (ES5, ES6 and ES7)
• React JSX
• CoffeeScript
• TypeScript (with typescript dependency)
• SASS and SCSS
• Vue.js (with @vue/compiler-sfc dependency)

To get the syntax support by external dependency, please install the corresponding package explicitly. For example, for TypeScript user, install depcheck with typescript package:

npm install -g depcheck typescript

Usage

Prune-deps supports depcheck config (prune.json file should be provided in the directory where prune-deps is running).

To start using prune-deps, position inside a directory with package.json then run prune-deps.

Select one of two options (View usage of dependencies or prune dependencies):

View usage of dependencies:

Pruning of dependencies:

Inspiration

• npm prune - Remove extraneous packages.
• depcheck - Check your npm module for unused dependencies.